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From Timothy Madden
Subject Re: Can the string literal syntax for function definitions please be dropped ?
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In response to Re: Can the string literal syntax for function definitions please be dropped ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> writes:
> Can the string literal syntax for the function body in a CREATE FUNCTION
> statement please,
> please be dropped ?

No.  Since the function's language might be anything, there's no way to
identify the end of the function body otherwise.

There is a SQL standard for this, and other DBMS look like they found a way ...

How come it can not be done ?

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